Thanks Jack, Dave, Rick, Ann, Paul, and Marnie! Ken: Fair point about the top petal-bit of sloppy cropping there. Interesting about the bright spot--Darrel (my husband) & I had a conversation about it, and Darrel thought it was interesting and added to the composition, so I went with it. Husbands, go figure :-). I might tone it down a bit. I actually eliminated a bright spot lower right of frame with the exposure brush in Lightroom 3, and it worked really well--so well I eliminated it entirely. It's a lot easier to use that feature with my new iMac and Lightroom 3--didn't work so well for me on my computer that just died. As to the desaturation--well, it's really just a reflection of the mood I was in at the time combined with a fair weather loyalty to reality :-). Big cheers, Christine
On Aug 28, 2011, at 3:39 PM, Ken Waller wrote: > Christine, several things jump out to me with your sunflower - YMMV > > The mostly centered composition is ok but the proximity of the petals to the > top edge draws my eye away from the subject - you need more space at the top > above the image - it would appear more of a crafted image as opposed to a > snap - which this image isn't. > > The bright spot at around the 7 o'clock position is unfortunate. > > But mostly I don't get the desaturation of the colors. > > Just my $.02 s worth. > > Kenneth Waller > http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Christine Aguila" <christ...@caguila.com> > Subject: PAW--Week 34--Sunflower > > >> It's amazing to think that I only have 18 weeks left! Where did the time >> go? Cheers, Christine > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
